Keynote Speaker

Clarence Filsfils (Cisco Systems)

Clarence Filsfils, a Cisco Systems Fellow, has a 30-year expertise leading innovation, productization, marketing and deployment for Cisco Systems. Trusted and respected by key decision makers across major WEB/OTT, SP’s and large Enterprises, Clarence enjoys working with these operators to listen to their needs and requirements, and then get things done from product design to deployment.

He invented the Segment Routing Technology (over 50 patents) and is leading its productization, marketing and deployment at record execution speed. For this contribution, he and his team received the Pioneer Award - Cisco's most prestigious award honouring innovative engineering. The award celebrates engineering contribution that brings growth in new markets, redefines current markets, and provides game-changing improvements to engineering productivity.

Previously, Clarence invented and led the Fast Routing Convergence Technology (over 30 patents) and was the lead designer for Cisco System’s QoS (20 patents) and large-scale IP/MPLS deployments. Clarence is a regular speaker at leading industry conferences. He holds over 230 patents and is a prolific writer, either in academic circle (ACM Sigcomm), or standard (40 RFC’s) or books (4). Clarence holds a PhD from the University of Liege, a Masters in Management from Solvay Business School and a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Liege.

Keynote: How IPv6 Segment Routing and IPM change modern networks